Law Kar-ying
E185267
Law Kar-ying is a renowned Hong Kong Cantonese opera performer and actor known for his versatile stage and screen roles.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Law Kar-ying canonical | 2 |
| Law Ka-ying | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1629480 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Law Kar-ying Context triple: [Cantonese opera, hasNotablePerformer, Law Kar-ying]
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A.
Chia-Shun Yih
Chia-Shun Yih was a prominent Chinese-American fluid dynamicist known for his influential theoretical work on hydrodynamic stability and stratified flows.
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B.
Yu-Chi Ho
Yu-Chi Ho is a prominent control theorist and engineer known for his pioneering contributions to optimal control, dynamic systems, and game theory.
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C.
Tung-Mow Yan
Tung-Mow Yan is a theoretical physicist best known for co-formulating the Drell–Yan process, a fundamental mechanism for lepton pair production in high-energy particle collisions.
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D.
Lai-Sang Young
Lai-Sang Young is a prominent mathematician known for her influential work in dynamical systems and ergodic theory.
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E.
Tsai Chongxin
Tsai Chongxin, better known as Joe Tsai, is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire businessman and co-founder of Alibaba Group.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Law Kar-ying Target entity description: Law Kar-ying is a renowned Hong Kong Cantonese opera performer and actor known for his versatile stage and screen roles.
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A.
Chia-Shun Yih
Chia-Shun Yih was a prominent Chinese-American fluid dynamicist known for his influential theoretical work on hydrodynamic stability and stratified flows.
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B.
Yu-Chi Ho
Yu-Chi Ho is a prominent control theorist and engineer known for his pioneering contributions to optimal control, dynamic systems, and game theory.
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C.
Tung-Mow Yan
Tung-Mow Yan is a theoretical physicist best known for co-formulating the Drell–Yan process, a fundamental mechanism for lepton pair production in high-energy particle collisions.
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D.
Lai-Sang Young
Lai-Sang Young is a prominent mathematician known for her influential work in dynamical systems and ergodic theory.
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E.
Tsai Chongxin
Tsai Chongxin, better known as Joe Tsai, is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire businessman and co-founder of Alibaba Group.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cantonese opera performer
ⓘ
Hong Kong actor ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Cantonese opera stage
ⓘ
Hong Kong film industry ⓘ Hong Kong television industry ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Law Kar-ying
ⓘ
surface form:
Law Ka-ying
羅家英 ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1946-09-22 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
China
ⓘ
Guangdong Province ⓘ
surface form:
Guangdong
Guangzhou ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Hong Kong, China
ⓘ
surface form:
Hong Kong
|
| collaboratedWith |
Liza Wang
ⓘ
Stephen Chow ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| familyName | Law ⓘ |
| field | performing arts ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | Cantonese opera ⓘ |
| givenName | Kar-ying ⓘ |
| hasSpouseSince | Liza Wang, married 2009 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
comic roles in Hong Kong cinema
ⓘ
versatile Cantonese opera performances ⓘ |
| language | Cantonese ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
stage ⓘ television ⓘ |
| name | Law Kar-ying self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Chinese ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Chinese Odyssey
ⓘ
Forbidden City Cop ⓘ Justice, My Foot! ⓘ The Mad Monk ⓘ |
| occupation |
Cantonese opera performer
ⓘ
Cantonese opera singer ⓘ actor ⓘ |
| performingArt | Cantonese opera ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Hong Kong, China
ⓘ
surface form:
Hong Kong
China ⓘ
surface form:
Mainland China
|
| residence |
Hong Kong, China
ⓘ
surface form:
Hong Kong
|
| scriptName | 羅家英 ⓘ |
| spouse | Liza Wang ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Traditional Chinese ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Law Kar-ying Description of subject: Law Kar-ying is a renowned Hong Kong Cantonese opera performer and actor known for his versatile stage and screen roles.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Law Ka-ying